How many people write and buy pro-vaccination books?
How many people love to write a conspiracy-laden book about evil corporations and doctors, and promise enlightenment by not following that path?
My guess is the latter.
Is that really Amazon's fault that there are more Anti-Vax books than Pro-Vax? My guess is any brick-and-mortar book store would contain the same.
I'd like anyone in the know to name 3 things that AI is successfully doing today somewhere in or around our daily lives. Activities that require thinking or reasoning ability and that were once performed by humans, but no longer.
NLP (Natural Language Processing): Be it a Voice Assistant(Alexa, Siri) or Voice Prompts while calling customer service.
Automatic Assistance in Cars: Be it Tesla's automation; or more generic automatic braking assist and lane following. It is still sensor input being evaluated for dangers and a computer taking an action that a human would, but usually faster.
Advertisements (Deep Learning): Someone I know walked into a store recently, didn't buy anything, and got a physical mailing the next week thanking them for their visit. The data sharing between phone companies, location services, stores and advertisers is a vast network of interconnectedn-ess that is arguably an AI system.
Computer vision: Camera face identification/tracking and then focusing on that face; Facebook/Snapchat silly face filters; Facebook face identification and name tagging.
What I learned while getting a degree in Cognitive Science, is that AI is a moving target. What you consider mundane computer assistance today, was the future of AI of a decade ago. It seems like we are never there, but AI is everywhere. Granted, it is domain-specific AI, and not General AI(consciousness), but it is still technically the field of Artificial Intelligence. The goal is to replicate aspects of the human mind, which is advancing rapidly, as seen in the above list.
...security features, likely referring to further enhancements from new classes of side-channel attacks.
I wonder if Meltdown is fixed.
Should be according to the PCWorld article:
"Sunny Cove will also be the first CPU cores to include hardware mitigation for Variant 3 and L1TF side-channel attacks that goose data by exploiting how CPUs prefetch data to improve performance."
That reminds me of the glider they used in Seveneves.
If I remember right, It was able to detect wind patterns at a distance and used that to glide up to the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
It would be interesting to build a craft that can increase it's height without propulsion.
Reminds me of this great sci-fi book I just read. If you ever wanted to know what spiders might think about the world. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Percussion impacts
You can see best from Fig 1. in your link. They aren't randomly flaked, but usually in a pattern of larger to smaller flakes to create a fine edge.
And I think the other figures are showing what are known as "hammers" that were used to create the blades. They would show repeated impacts in the same place or scratches in a certain area.
That aren't just random crushed rocks, if you know what you are looking for.
If he is referring to Gregor Mendel(d. 1884), the founder of modern genetics, no they didn't.
They did promote him to be abbot of his abbey, where he didn't have time from science. I guess that's technically a confirmation of the Peter Principle.
This doesn't appear to be like sintering, it is more like welding titanium wire to create the basic form and then milling it to the final dimensions.
To quote Norsk's brochure about why this is better:
"One component of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner requires 40 pounds of titanium to be machined down to each 1 pound that flies on the airplane,
illustrating the inefficiency of legacy forging techniques. Norsk Titanium’s revolutionary additive manufacturing solution preserves the strength and weight
benefits of titanium, while reducing processing time and cost up to 75%"
And why are they going thorough the trouble of removing improvements from CFQ?
There is already a choice of schedulers in the kernel. Why not just make an addition one named BFQ?
That seems much safer than mucking with the current default scheduler and potentially breaking performance for a type of workload.
Pope Benedict XVI endorsed this statement (before becoming pope):
"According to the widely accepted scientific account, the universe erupted 15 billion years ago in an explosion called the 'Big Bang' and has been expanding and cooling ever since. Later there gradually emerged the conditions necessary for the formation of atoms, still later the condensation of galaxies and stars, and about 10 billion years later the formation of planets. In our own solar system and on earth (formed about 4.5 billion years ago), the conditions have been favorable to the emergence of life. While there is little consensus among scientists about how the origin of this first microscopic life is to be explained, there is general agreement among them that the first organism dwelt on this planet about 3.5–4 billion years ago. Since it has been demonstrated that all living organisms on earth are genetically related, it is virtually certain that all living organisms have descended from this first organism. Converging evidence from many studies in the physical and biological sciences furnishes mounting support for some theory of evolution to account for the development and diversification of life on earth, while controversy continues over the pace and mechanisms of evolution." - Communion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God, plenary sessions held in Rome 2000–2002, published July 2004,
Evolution, and most other science is fine with Catholics.
Put it in secure notes. Give them all the login/password.
If they test it regularly, then have a locally cached copy if Lastpass goes belly up, which can be opened with Lastpass Pocket or whatever it's called now.
Agreed.
I'm a member of a CSA in the wonderful state of Pennsylvania.
I pay around that much. (although in one annual payment for May-Nov)
My farmer has 2 acres of land and about 30-40 members if I recall. So that's the same order of magnitude.
We get more veggies than we can eat. The fridge is always stuffed full of whatever's in season. Lettuces; cukes; peppers; tomatoes; kohlrabi; squash; potatoes; parsnips; etc; etc.
I still sadly need to throw stuff away since we can't eat it all in time. But it's just the fresh stuff and storage veggies. We don't get grains. Corn has a horrible yield density.
They aren't making a killing. I actually had a pair of farmers for the first few years of the CSA, but they decided it wasn't possible to both live off of it, so she went off to do something else.
I did the math a few years ago. It's probably somewhat less than it costs at the grocery store, but it much fresher. You can't compare the taste of tomatoes from a store and something you just picked. (You can pick some of your own stuff also. I'm pretty damn sure he isn't trucking anything in.)
I get to be on a first name basis with my farmer, and I'm helping someone with a local business. He would get pennies on the dollar selling to a store, so it's win-win. And my kids get to see where their food comes from. Anything he has leftover gets sent to a Food Bank.
It would be awesome if I didn't have to drive to pick up the veggies, like these planned towns. Cool idea.
OMG. This has always been sheer laziness by people who don't want to understand SELinux. Almost all of these problems could be solved by creating a new context rule to allow access that is needed. It's just that it takes a certain level of expertise to understand the concepts. Many RHCEs can to do this. Then they could add that command-line to their install instructions or scripts. There is no reason to disable SELinux.
The above is absolutely true and people who get pissed off about Xmas and Xian don't realize they are Greek short forms for Christ that have been used since the 3rd centurty. Heck, does that mean the Chi-Rho symbol used extensively in churchs is also an slur? (Aw, slashdot won't let me insert HTML Greek char codes)
Please feel free to continue to use Xmas and Xian. There is no war on Christmas or Christ. As you were...
Slashdot Mirror
They should not just be a network of relays. They should BE the servers. For files, chat (IRC, Signal), mail, websites, forums, etc.
This project has some of that functionality: Piratebox
I installed it on a battery-powered wifi router with some survival docs, but its battery is dead so it might not be very useful when the SHTF.
How many people love to write a conspiracy-laden book about evil corporations and doctors, and promise enlightenment by not following that path?
My guess is the latter.
Is that really Amazon's fault that there are more Anti-Vax books than Pro-Vax? My guess is any brick-and-mortar book store would contain the same.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...
"Collectively these images are the first reported in nearly 100 years that confirm the existence of black leopard in Africa..."
So, it is the media getting carried away again with headlines.
I'd like anyone in the know to name 3 things that AI is successfully doing today somewhere in or around our daily lives. Activities that require thinking or reasoning ability and that were once performed by humans, but no longer.
NLP (Natural Language Processing): Be it a Voice Assistant(Alexa, Siri) or Voice Prompts while calling customer service.
Automatic Assistance in Cars: Be it Tesla's automation; or more generic automatic braking assist and lane following. It is still sensor input being evaluated for dangers and a computer taking an action that a human would, but usually faster.
Advertisements (Deep Learning): Someone I know walked into a store recently, didn't buy anything, and got a physical mailing the next week thanking them for their visit. The data sharing between phone companies, location services, stores and advertisers is a vast network of interconnectedn-ess that is arguably an AI system.
Computer vision: Camera face identification/tracking and then focusing on that face; Facebook/Snapchat silly face filters; Facebook face identification and name tagging.
What I learned while getting a degree in Cognitive Science, is that AI is a moving target. What you consider mundane computer assistance today, was the future of AI of a decade ago. It seems like we are never there, but AI is everywhere. Granted, it is domain-specific AI, and not General AI(consciousness), but it is still technically the field of Artificial Intelligence. The goal is to replicate aspects of the human mind, which is advancing rapidly, as seen in the above list.
I wonder if Meltdown is fixed.
Should be according to the PCWorld article:
"Sunny Cove will also be the first CPU cores to include hardware mitigation for Variant 3 and L1TF side-channel attacks that goose data by exploiting how CPUs prefetch data to improve performance."
That reminds me of the glider they used in Seveneves.
If I remember right, It was able to detect wind patterns at a distance and used that to glide up to the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
It would be interesting to build a craft that can increase it's height without propulsion.
Reminds me of this great sci-fi book I just read. If you ever wanted to know what spiders might think about the world.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Here is Yubico's statement on what features of the Yubikey 4 are affected:
https://www.yubico.com/2017/10...
https://xkcd.com/1897/
Oddly, only from a week or so ago.
You can see best from Fig 1. in your link. They aren't randomly flaked, but usually in a pattern of larger to smaller flakes to create a fine edge. And I think the other figures are showing what are known as "hammers" that were used to create the blades. They would show repeated impacts in the same place or scratches in a certain area.
That aren't just random crushed rocks, if you know what you are looking for.
If he is referring to Gregor Mendel(d. 1884), the founder of modern genetics, no they didn't.
They did promote him to be abbot of his abbey, where he didn't have time from science. I guess that's technically a confirmation of the Peter Principle.
This doesn't appear to be like sintering, it is more like welding titanium wire to create the basic form and then milling it to the final dimensions.
To quote Norsk's brochure about why this is better:
"One component of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner requires 40 pounds of titanium to be machined down to each 1 pound that flies on the airplane, illustrating the inefficiency of legacy forging techniques.
Norsk Titanium’s revolutionary additive manufacturing solution preserves the strength and weight benefits of titanium, while reducing processing time and cost up to 75%"
Source: www.norsktitanium.com
Just like this video: (Which is time lapsed, so much faster movement)
Youtube
or this pic:
Pic
And why are they going thorough the trouble of removing improvements from CFQ?
There is already a choice of schedulers in the kernel. Why not just make an addition one named BFQ?
That seems much safer than mucking with the current default scheduler and potentially breaking performance for a type of workload.
Seeing as that order are all "ground-eating" birds, the reason is probably mostly based on: "Bird that doesn't fly too high when I try to catch it."
Siberian Traps
That puts any supervolcanoes to shame.
Although the plates have shifted locations since that eruption.
Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
It was ejected by the scientific community for a while since it was too close to a 'creation' story.
This is not news for people who have been paying attention to such things.
Someone needs to go tell that plant to go clean up their act. At the very least, it's wasting methane.
Pope Benedict XVI endorsed this statement (before becoming pope):
"According to the widely accepted scientific account, the universe erupted 15 billion years ago in an explosion called the 'Big Bang' and has been expanding and cooling ever since. Later there gradually emerged the conditions necessary for the formation of atoms, still later the condensation of galaxies and stars, and about 10 billion years later the formation of planets. In our own solar system and on earth (formed about 4.5 billion years ago), the conditions have been favorable to the emergence of life. While there is little consensus among scientists about how the origin of this first microscopic life is to be explained, there is general agreement among them that the first organism dwelt on this planet about 3.5–4 billion years ago. Since it has been demonstrated that all living organisms on earth are genetically related, it is virtually certain that all living organisms have descended from this first organism. Converging evidence from many studies in the physical and biological sciences furnishes mounting support for some theory of evolution to account for the development and diversification of life on earth, while controversy continues over the pace and mechanisms of evolution." - Communion and Stewardship: Human Persons Created in the Image of God, plenary sessions held in Rome 2000–2002, published July 2004,
Evolution, and most other science is fine with Catholics.
I leave you with this vaguely relevant and addicting song.....Energia!!!
http://youtu.be/BVWfqOSdzs4
Put it in secure notes. Give them all the login/password.
If they test it regularly, then have a locally cached copy if Lastpass goes belly up, which can be opened with Lastpass Pocket or whatever it's called now.
Are they trying to bury the Hachette?
Agreed.
I'm a member of a CSA in the wonderful state of Pennsylvania.
I pay around that much. (although in one annual payment for May-Nov)
My farmer has 2 acres of land and about 30-40 members if I recall. So that's the same order of magnitude.
We get more veggies than we can eat. The fridge is always stuffed full of whatever's in season. Lettuces; cukes; peppers; tomatoes; kohlrabi; squash; potatoes; parsnips; etc; etc.
I still sadly need to throw stuff away since we can't eat it all in time. But it's just the fresh stuff and storage veggies. We don't get grains. Corn has a horrible yield density.
They aren't making a killing. I actually had a pair of farmers for the first few years of the CSA, but they decided it wasn't possible to both live off of it, so she went off to do something else.
I did the math a few years ago. It's probably somewhat less than it costs at the grocery store, but it much fresher. You can't compare the taste of tomatoes from a store and something you just picked. (You can pick some of your own stuff also. I'm pretty damn sure he isn't trucking anything in.)
I get to be on a first name basis with my farmer, and I'm helping someone with a local business. He would get pennies on the dollar selling to a store, so it's win-win. And my kids get to see where their food comes from. Anything he has leftover gets sent to a Food Bank.
It would be awesome if I didn't have to drive to pick up the veggies, like these planned towns. Cool idea.
OMG. This has always been sheer laziness by people who don't want to understand SELinux. Almost all of these problems could be solved by creating a new context rule to allow access that is needed. It's just that it takes a certain level of expertise to understand the concepts. Many RHCEs can to do this. Then they could add that command-line to their install instructions or scripts. There is no reason to disable SELinux.
The above is absolutely true and people who get pissed off about Xmas and Xian don't realize they are Greek short forms for Christ that have been used since the 3rd centurty. Heck, does that mean the Chi-Rho symbol used extensively in churchs is also an slur? (Aw, slashdot won't let me insert HTML Greek char codes)
Please feel free to continue to use Xmas and Xian. There is no war on Christmas or Christ. As you were...